A Nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum évkönyve 48. (Nyíregyháza, 2006)

Régészet - Berendi Erzsébet: Animal bones from the Roman Imperial Period settlement part near Nyírtura–Várrét (Nyíregyháza, Eastern Bypass, Site 37)

Berendi Erzsébet VÖRÖS 1999. Vörös István: Germán ló-kutya kettős sírok Keszthely avar kori temetőjében. [Germanische Pferde-Hunde-Doppelgräber im awarenzeitlichen Gräberfeld von Keszthely.] Zalai Múzeum 9. 1999. 121-151. BERENDI Erzsébet Jósa András Múzeum, Nyíregyháza H^401 Pf. 57 e-mail: zsozso26@yahoo.com Animal bones from the Roman Imperial Period settlement part near Nyírtura—Várrét (Nyíregyháza, Eastern Bypass, Site 37) In 2004 archaeological finds and animal bones were collected from a settlement part near Nyírtura-Várrét (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, NE-Hungary). The collected bone material was low in number and very poor in quality, thus provides very few information. By the colour of the bones it is evident that there has been soil and groundwater with a very high ferrum content - the bones show the reddish/brownish colour of the limonite, strong exfoliation, and there are very few whole bones. Cca. 415 pieces were collected from the site, mostly very fragmentary (NNISP=cca. 393: cca. 94.6%>). Only 22 pieces were more or less complete. 262 pieces could be determined (NISP=262: 62.8%>), 220 from there belong to dogs, which appear mostly as partial scheletons (NISPcanis=220: 53.01%), MNI=7). The rest 67 pieces belong to other domesticated animals, and only 39 could be determinated (NISPdom=39: 58.2%, MNE=31). The livestock is made up 100% of domesticated animals. As the dog-bones make up 53%> of the livestock, I calculate the other animals separately from them. The animals appear in percentage as follows: 53.8%> Bos taurus, 23.07%) Equus caballus, 20.5%> Ovis aries, 2.56% Capra hircus. Considering that the greatest part of the bones belong to the first Uerpmann-category (best meat-quality - Fig. 1), we can assume that these bones are mostly culinary rests. This fact is confirmed by the fact that 32-33%» of the bones show gnawing marks and 30.76%» of them show cutting marks. It is an interesting remark, that there had been collected neither boiled bones, nor swinebones from this site. Translated by the author Erzsébet BERENDI Jósa András Museum, Nyíregyháza H^401 Pf. 57 e-mail: zsozso26@yahoo.com 260